Eszter Kissová

“a figure should be a part of the background against which it is placed”

“Draw you pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.”

“One does not always sing out of happiness.”

“Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.”

“A painting that is well composed is half-finished.”

“Imagination is merely the exploitation of our memory.”

“I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn, and one in which to practice his art.”

“Painting has to get back to its original goal, examining the inner lives of human beings.”

“Hell, it's a business… All I do is supply a public demand. I do it in the best and least harmful way I can. I can't change the conditions. I just meet them without backing up.”

“Some of the biggest Drys in the country buy from me and have for years, so let's stop kidding.”

“All I ever did was sell beer and whiskey to our best people. All I ever did was supply a demand that was pretty popular. Why, the very guys that make my trade good are the ones that yell the loudest about me. Some of the leading judges use the stuff.”

“Ninety percent of the people of Cook County drink and gamble and my offense has been to furnish them with those amusements. Whatever else they may say, my booze has been good and my games have been on the square. Public service has been my motto.”

“The country wanted booze and I organized it. Why should I be called a public enemy?”

“I give the public what it wants. I never had to send out high-pressure salesmen. I could never meet the demand.”

“I've seen gambling houses, too-in my travels, you understand-and I never saw anyone point a gun at a man and make him go in. Tve never heard of anyone being forced to go to a place to have some fun.”

“I never stuck up a man in my life. Neither did any of my agents ever rob anybody or burglarize any homes while they worked for me. They might have pulled plenty of jobs before they came with me or after they left me, but not while they were in my outfit.”

“When I sell liquor, they call it bootlegging. When my patrons serve it on silver trays on Lake Shore Drive, they call it hospitality.”

“They talk about me not being legitimate. Nobody's on the legit, You know that and so do they. Nobody's really-on the legit when it comes down to cases.”

“A crook is a crook, and there's something healthy about his frankness in the matter. But the guy who pretends he's enforcing the law and steals on his authority is a swell snake.”